Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Labor & Employment

Partner

For more than thirty years, Michael Brett Burns has represented leading employers and management, particularly in the retail and professional services industries, in a wide range of employment, wage and hour, and public accommodations matters. Brett, a partner in the labor and employment practice at Hunton, focuses on complex litigation matters, and regularly defends clients in employment class actions, wage and hour class, collective, and PAGA representative actions, public accommodations class actions, and federal agency pattern or practice matters (including lawsuits filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and state attorneys general).

He has led the defense of more than 200 class, collective, representative, and pattern or practice actions, tried complex class actions, collective actions, and pattern or practice cases to juries, and secured verdicts for clients in multiple single-plaintiff jury trials, bench trials, and arbitrations, earning national recognition.

In addition to his litigation and arbitration practice, Brett counsels clients on litigation avoidance strategies and on creative solutions for complicated employment, wage and hour, and public accommodation law challenges.

Admitted to the California and Texas State Bars

JD, The University of Texas School of Law, Member and Associate Editor, Texas Law Review, 1991 BS, Texas A&M University, 1988